Dont try this at home !!, alone or unsupervised!

[Guest BSilvernail]

so here is the thing why would bricking your phone matter anyways because when verizon sends it back to samsung. samsung is just going to reflash the phone with a current verizon/samsung approved rom. It just doesn't make sense to brick your phone sense it is going to create alot more work for everyone else involved. And don't you think that if Samsung seen alot of their i910 comming back with different software they may think to themselves to make rom software for their phones with features and they have seen consumers using

[Guest deviant24x]

so here is the thing why would bricking your phone matter anyways because when verizon sends it back to samsung. samsung is just going to reflash the phone with a current verizon/samsung approved rom. It just doesn't make sense to brick your phone sense it is going to create alot more work for everyone else involved. And don't you think that if Samsung seen alot of their i910 comming back with different software they may think to themselves to make rom software for their phones with features and they have seen consumers using

No actually I HAVE bricked a phone and what happened in my case was that they checked it out to see what was wrong, then set up an order for a new phone. (I made sure to claim ignorance as to the cause) I had to hold on to my accessories but the phone was completely new. My only dilemma then was whether or not to flash with the risk being higher the second time around because of the record of the first transaction.

[Guest bene elim]

lol dude if you wanna kill any peace of hardware stick it in the microwave for a short time...kills anything leaves no traces behind

[Guest ghost82]

as above you can chuck it in the microwave, but you may damage the plastic, your microwave... your house...

the easiest way to brick any phone without any evidence is to get a 9v battery and some wire. Open the back of your phone up, take out the battery and connect one wire the your phone battery connections and the other end to the 9v battery. Get the other wire connect it to the 9v battery and 'brush' the other end on any metal bits showing inside your phone. This will short circuit the phone and make it not switch on. You can then send it back as faulty.

Don't hold the wire in the same place for too long though as this will cause burn marks, and you may not get away with it then

[Guest bene elim]

even though it's quite dangerous to put anything metal in a microwave, nothing will happen, few seconds is more than enough to fu** up everything electronic ;)